LR Classic Book Module BUGGY AS HELL costing me hours of productivity

Hi all, I'm coming to you today from a 2019 MBP running Recently updted Catalina 10.15.04 and running LR Classic 9.2

A few times a year I use The book module to put together a wedding album and wither save as a pdf and upload to a printer, or order stright through the blurb option.

The problems I have been encountering have been vast and very annoying. They have been ongoing for atleast the last 8 months on a  number of versions of LR and on multiple computers with newer and older versions of OSX.

Problem 1.

Enter collection, it has 130 photos.

Switch to book module for first time.

Autolayout makes a 130 page book, I clear the book and start fresh, jump out of the module to take care of somehtingelse, when i come back to it my collection of 130 photos now includes every photo from the previous collection I used to make an album. so now I have 540 photos from two different weddings. Now I have to clear out all the pages again and start over becuase it has also redone the autolayout.

As a safety measure I tried to clear the book, then create a saved book to begin the project with only the photos I care about in the 130 photo collection. Once I go to the newly saved "blank" book it has 240 pages from a fresh autolayout once again including all the photos from the other collection and I am unable to use the clear book option so I have to delete the whole book and start over.


Problem 2.

Saved books vanish once I begin a new book.
Yesterday I completed two albums and attempted to begin a third. The first two albums were in the same collection set. I made a saved book for each of them and exported jpegs for approval form the client.

I then jumped over to a different collection set with the next wedding I needed to work on, I click the book module, experience all of the issues in Problem 1, but also notice the previous book I had saved no longer existed. 

After a few expletives I command Z until the book has comeback from whereever it vanished to. 

I once again try to create a new book in the other collection and immediately check to see the status of the previous book.

Again it is gone.

command Z the book back to life

right click the saved book, copy book

now I have two copies.

quit lightroom, restart computer

open lightroom, original and copy of book are listed in the collection set

I go to the collection set for the next album, switch to book module and the original and the copy of the previously completed book are gone.

I command Z until they are back, quit lightroom and call it quits for the day.

This must have also happened to previous albums because two that I completed and saved in the last month are no longer listed in my saved books, but since I didnt work on both in the same day I must have missed the moment when they vanished. The first one I had to rebuild from the low res jpegs I sent out to the clients for approval. The book module has cost me atleast 8 hours of productivity because of troubleshooting or rebuilding books that vanished. 

What is going on with this?

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